UPDATED 07:30 EDT / APRIL 04 2014

No foolin’ for Big Data : Cloudera, Intel + Pivotal make waves

April Fools DayEven April Fools Day was overshadowed this week by a few milestone Big Data announcements, the first being Cloudera’s massive fundraising round of $900 million; $740 million of which came from Intel for a hefty 18 percent ownership. In this week’s Data Economy column, Wikibon’s Senior Analyst Jeff Kelly discusses why this news is bigger for Intel than Cloudera, and why the Big Data market is clamoring for a foothold in the enterprise where software-led initiatives introduce more and more Cloud services.

Among those making a play for the enterprise is Pivotal, which released its Big Data Suite this week. The service is also priced for a competitive market, where Pivotal is going up against top players like Amazon Web Services and IBM SoftLayer. As a member of EMC’s federation of IT solutions, Pivotal could become core to the storage company’s long term success, or could become a distraction. We explore the topic here.

Peering into the real world implications of Big Data in the enterprise, Editor-at-Large Dave Coursey wrote about the difference between the CIO and CDO jobs, and why these must remain separate.

Lets dig a little deeper into all of this week’s top stories:

Cloudera raises monster round of $900 million

 
Cloudera announced this week that they raised a total of $900 million in equity in a private round of funding, which included a massive investment from Intel totaling $740 million. It’s reported that Intel now owns an 18 stake in Cloudera, roughly at a $4.1 billion valuation. This investment cements Cloudera’s role in the Big Data market, and Intel’s investment gives the chip maker another leg up in this growing industry.

The Data Economy: Intel bets big (really big) on Big Data

 
What most may not realize about Intel’s investment in Cloudera is that this doesn’t mean Cloudera now has a bunch of cash on hand. According to Wikibon’s Senior Analyst Jeff Kelly, Intel most likely bought out most of Cloudera’s initial investors, leaving it as the dominant share holder. Jeff believes this says a whole lot more about Intel than it does Cloudera, citing three reasons: 1) Intel needs the enterprise, 2) The Internet of Things needs a home, 3) Cloud is the future.

Why CIO and CDO must be separate jobs

 
anonymity anonymous choose a face man with hatWhat is the difference between the CIO and the CDO? Which would a CIO prefer to be? SiliconANGLE’s new Editor-at-Large Dave Coursey got to thinking about these questions after a recent conversation he had with MIT’s Richard Wang, who runs the university’s CDO research and information quality programs. CIOs and CDOs are two completely different jobs, and Coursey addresses why they should remain so.

Pivotal gears up for multi-front war with Big Data suite

 
The Big Data market is going to be a very interesting battleground over the next 10 years. Pivotal made a move on the Big Data chessboard this week, with its play to push Hadoop in the enterprise. Pivotal revealed a flexible Big Data computing suite this week, presenting new capabilities from the joint venture between EMC, VMware, and General Electric. Pivotal’s new Big Data Suite is aimed at making enterprise adoption easier with more tools and competitive pricing, taking on a very competitive space where Cloudera, Hortonworks and even Amazon Web Services lead the market.

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 : First week of April

 
Bitcoin WeeklyThe biggest Bitcoin news of the week is that Square, the brainchild of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has joined with Coinbase to allow merchants using the Square Market to accept Bitcoins (BTC) as a form of payment. Also included in this week’s Bitoin column, Circle Internet Financial announced it raised $17 million in funding, while also unveiling a Bitcoin exchange and wallet. Rounding out this week’s Bitcoin news, Ross Ulbright (aka Dread Pirate Roberts), is looking for a dismissal of the current money laundering charges he’s facing, citing that the IRS deeming Bitcoins as property, not as money, changes things for his pending prosecution.

April Fools’ frenzy: Here’s today’s top pranks around the web

 
What is April 1st without an April Fools’ frenzy? Google went big this year with a plethora of April Fools Day pranks, starting with a new selfie-inspired Gmail product called Shelfie. Shelfie allows you to share your ‘selfie’ theme with your friends for their Gmail backgrounds. The search giant also had a Pokemon themed treasure hunt prank using Google Maps. The last was the Magic Hand prank, a product Google said will help users operate smartphones and tablets without leaving smudges behind.


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